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p.oxy.56.3872 spätes VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

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Letter to Theodoros reporting a stormy voyage to Alexandria. A Christian letter reporting that the writer reached Alexandria after a stormy voyage, met the magistrianus Belisarios carrying replies from their common master, and waited to travel on with him; the writer promises to write again from Babylon. It is addressed to the most illustrious Theodoros and comes from Oxyrhynchus, late 6th to 7th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † † τοῦ θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος καὶ τῶν ἁγίων κατελάβαμεν τὴν Ἀλεξανδρέων πολὺ πάνυ χειμασθέντες καὶ ηὔραμεν Βελισάριον τὸν μαγιστριανὸν πεμφθέντα μετὰ ἀποκρίσεων παρὰ τοῦ κοινοῦ ἡμῶν δεσπότου καὶ ἀνεμείναμεν ἵνα ἐν τῷ ἅμα ἐξέλθωμεν πρὸς τὸν θεοφύλακτον ἡμῶν δεσπότην, καὶ ἐλπίζομεν πάλιν καταλαμβανόντων ἡμῶν Βαβυλῶνα πάλιν γράφομεν πρὸς τὸν δεσπότην μου. πάντα γὰρ τὰ κινηθέντα εἰς τὸ μέγα ἐξέρκετον καὶ ἐν Κωνσταντίνου πόλει ἤδη ἐγράψαμεν ὑμῖν. ὁ κύριος τῆς δόξης ἀξιώσῃ με καὶ αὐταῖς ὄψεσιν ἀσπάσασθαι τὰ ἴχνη τοῦ ἐμοῦ δεσπότου †. [v] † ἰδίῳ μου ἀγαθῷ δεσπότῃ τὰ πάντα λαμπροτάτῳ Θεοδώρῳ[…]…[…]… † ……[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † † With God and the saints fighting on our side, we reached the city of the Alexandrians after being very badly storm-tossed, and we found Belisarios the magistrianus, sent with replies from our common master, and we waited so that we might set out together to our God-protected master; and we hope, when we reach Babylon again, to write again to my master. For all the matters that were set in motion (have gone) to the great exercitus (?), and we already wrote to you in Constantinople. May the Lord of glory grant me to greet the footsteps of my master with my own eyes †. [verso] † To my own good master, in all things most illustrious, Theodoros […] † […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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